You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like […]
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
When we come to it We, this people, on this minuscule … globe Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace … We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life […]